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COVID Pandemic- A Double Emergency

Despite forming 15% of India’s population, we nomadic tribes who were anyway far removed from every single development indicator, are now literally fading away. I belong to the Gadiyalohar nomadic community. We can be seen living in small tents
July 25, 2020

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

  Feminisation Of Migration In The Philippines  Wherever you go, there’s always a Filipino worker out there. They are scattered in 193 countries and territories as well as in ocean plying vessels. The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (COF)
July 25, 2020

My Father’s Air-Raid Shelter

  Well before the 5th of April, 1942, when the Japanese flew planes over Colombo, creating a panic that emptied houses, the owners of which promptly left the city and sought refuge in the ‘out-stations’, my father had an air-raid
April 25, 2020

Between The Lines

Several years ago, a young English couple came to honeymoon in the hill country of Sri Lanka. Part of their stay was in a wonderful hotel which was built in a former tea factory.  Some of the pieces of equipment
April 25, 2020

Community Building Via Social Media

  Likes. Shares. Engagement. Reach. Followers. These sound pitifully wrong coming from a Sri Lankan writer managing an Instagram page with a mere 600+ followers. Today’s digital culture determines an artist’s worth by the number of followers we have amassed.
April 25, 2020

Reasonably Dangerous To Be Safe?

  The first semester of my PhD studies ended smoothly, and I treated myself with a short trip to Jwaladevi,  one among 51 Shakti Peethas in Hindu mythology.  Scriptures hold that Goddess Parvati persuaded her husband, Lord Shankar, to attend
January 25, 2020

Shhh Dealing With Taboo Topics

  Shanuki de Alwis decided to open up a talk show in a digital space where women could speak about issues that conservative societies suppressed: ‘For the longest time, I have wanted to find ways to expand the conversations beyond my
October 25, 2019

Marriage Or Migration

An Escape from Overbearing Parenting Toxic parenting is very common in South Asia. In general, if one considers how much parents and children are enmeshed in each other’s lives, it is a hold that is never relinquished till one or
October 25, 2019
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Why We’re All Slow Learners?

  If there is such a thing as a ‘slow’ learner, does it mean there are ‘slow’ teachers, ‘slow’ trainers, ‘slow’ Head Masters, ‘slow’ officials, ‘slow’ institutions, ‘slow’ systems? It’s amazing to see how many people use the term ‘slow’ learner without
October 25, 2019
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